Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07
THE EFFECT OF WHEAT
GAMBLING.

rOr the nrst seven mOntS OF the present
fiscal year the exports of this country ex.
ceeded the imports by $72, 239, O62, and
this in three months has ben reduced to
less than one-half that sum. In the last
two months, including the exposts of for
eign goods re-exported, the excess of i'm
ports has been over $31, OOO, 900.
Such an immense falling of in exports
trade has never been known in the his
tory OF this country. For the first five
months of 1885, taking all the exports of
foreign and domestic merchandise, coin
bullion, the exports over imports was
s2s, 388, 957. For the first five months of
this year the excess of imports over ex-
ports was %, 1872. 468-a difference of $780,
S21, 1926.
The explanation of this most unsatisfac-
tory state of affairs may be found in a
large extent in the operations of the clique
| OF gamblers who controlled the wheat
market until ten days ago. By forcing a
fictitious value upon grain they put stop
altogether to exports, and millions of dol
lars which would have turned the bal
ance of trade in our favor, have been lost to
country: Now that the corner has been
broken, and prices are once more based
upon Shipping value, the outgoing cur
rent will probably be shortly resumed, but
much of that which has been lost will
never be egained.-Leavenwor Times.
Crops are good everywhere in western
Kansas. The Garden City Sentinel re-
porter tells his trip to the country as fol-
lows:
Every man we saw when asked about
his crops had a cheerful answer which
was celebrating to hear. Here we saw
| farm where the new owner last year
raised several hundred dollars worth of
cabbage on an acre of ground, and sold
four crops of alfalfa for about sixty dol
lars per acre. This man came from Mis-
souri,, we believe, but thinks Kansas
good enough place to live in, and such
Missourians as he are always welcome.
We want hundreds of men like him who
know how to get big money off of small
patch of ground. 1t is pretty much all in
knowing how, though, of course, there is
considerable depending on the actual
work. But the man who "knows how"
has learned all he knows by working and
thinking and he likes nothing better than
to keep at it; working for himself and
thinking while he works Another far
mer told us that he had thirty seven acres
of as fine oats as he ever saw, almost
ready to harvest, and we could we'll take
his word for it, for he always raises good
crops, and two years ago, his first year
on farm entirely new, he raised twenty
acres of oats that turned off 5O1 bushels
per acre, machine measure. We saw
that crop on the ground and never saw a
field of oats more even and free from
weeds. He is on the Great Eastern Irri-
eating Ditch, and uses water with skill
and judgment.
Another farmer is keeping cows and
making butter. He has wife and two
daughters to help in the butter making
and the product is guilt edged" COM
handing tip top prices. We shall have
more to say of this dairy farm in the
good time coming.
At still another farm we found nice
field of oats ripe for the harvest, and the
young farmer had bought cradle and
having as yet no better use for a cradle
he was cutting oats with it-and this on
June 30
On the same farm we saw as fine field
of corn as we would expect to see on the
richest Kaw river, or Wakarusa bottom,
and this too on the highest uplands,
prairie without irrigation. The rain of
last Tuesday was much heavier there
than in Garden City, and the upland was
too wet to pillow or hoe. How is that for
the sandy desert land of west Kansas?
Several acres of sweet potatoes and one
of onions-with some twenty acres of
millet and three of alfalfa makes up the
balance of his crop so far, and will put in
patch of turnips of the ruta bago per-
suasion, and to SOW in between his corn
rows when he lays it by. This rye for
fall, winter, and spring pasture, and then
stand for crop if it seems to promise a
good one, otherwise to be plowed under,
to fertilize the ground for corn.
Next door we enjoyed the sight of some
nice shade and fruit trees planted in June
of last year and now presenting a beau
tiful show of vigorous growth. An allan
thus had grown four feet this spring and
looks as though it had only begun Its
summers work.
New potatoes on the table as large as
tea cups gave delicious proof that our
soil and climate are just exactly suited to
the growth of this inestimable huber,
which the new world gave to the old.
One Of the pcculiarities of Kansas
is the whittier. He is to be found in
every live town in the state and par
ticlarly in the southwest. Go into any